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| Foreword: On the Pleasures of the Amateur | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| How to Use this Book | |
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| General Introduction by Miguel Leon-Portilla | |
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| Four Pre-Columbian Documents | |
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| The New Geography of Mesoamerica | |
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| Nahua Literature | |
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| Songs and Poems | |
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| Metaphysical Poems | |
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| Bawdy Poems | |
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| War Songs | |
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| Otomi Songs in Nahuatl | |
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| Attributed Songs | |
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| Sacred Narrative | |
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| Quetzalcoatl's Hero Journey | |
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| The Founding of Tenochtitlan | |
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| The Birth of Huitzilopochtli | |
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| Sacred Hymns, Prayers, and Ceremonies | |
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| Hymn to Xipe Totec | |
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| Song of Cihuacoatl | |
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| Hymn to Tlaloc | |
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| Invocation of Tezcatlipoca | |
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| Prayer to Tlazolteotl | |
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| Huehuetlahtolli ("Discourses of the Elders") | |
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| Florentine Codex, Book VI | |
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| The Bancroft Dialogues | |
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| Ceremonies of Sacrifice - Florentine Codex | |
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| Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors | |
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| Proverbs | |
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| Conundrums | |
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| Metaphors | |
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| Historical Narratives | |
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| Extract from Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca | |
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| The Fall of Tenochtitlan | |
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| The Conquest of Tenochtitlan | |
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| Nahua Historians of the Colonial Period | |
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| Cronica Mexicayotl | |
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| The Prophecy of the High Priest Tenochtli by Chimalpain | |
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| Christian Proselytizing Literature | |
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| The Dialogues of 1524 | |
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| Christian Psalms | |
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| Christian Theater - Holy Week Drama | |
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| Christian Epic Literature - Nican Mopohua | |
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| Christian Pageant - The Tepozteco | |
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| The Dance of the Great Conquest | |
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| Colonial Literature of Daily Life | |
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| Letters and Proclamations | |
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| Official Texts | |
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| Modern Nahua Literature | |
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| The Poet | |
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| Life and Death in Milpa Alta | |
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| Manifestos of Emiliano Zapata | |
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| Dona Luz Jimenez Stories | |
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| Madrecita | |
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| Coyotes of Today | |
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| A New Dialogue of Flowers and Songs by Xochime | |
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| On a Diet | |
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| Three Works by Natalio Hernandez Xocoyotzin | |
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| Lord of Night by Librado Silva Galeana | |
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| Maya Literature | |
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| Sacred Narrative | |
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| The Popol Vuh | |
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| The Chilam Balam of Chumayel | |
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| Dramatic Literature | |
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| The Rabinal Achi | |
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| Political Literature | |
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| Title of the Lords of Totonicapan | |
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| Prophetic and Historical Literature | |
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| Conquest - Chilam Balam of Mani | |
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| Character Predictions - Chilam Balam of Mani | |
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| The Secret History of the Itza - Chilam Balam of Tizimin | |
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| A Spanish Raid: Maya Chronicles | |
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| The Cakchiquel History: Annals of the Cakchiquels | |
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| Last Flight of the Quetzal Prince - Titles from the House of Ixquim-Nehaib | |
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| The Death of Cuauhtemoc - A Chontal Story | |
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| From the Cronica de Chac-Xulub-Chen | |
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| Songs and Incantations | |
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| Rituals of the Bacabs | |
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| The Songs of Dzitbalche | |
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| Prayers for Rain | |
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| A Lacandon Song | |
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| A Chorti Curing Ritual | |
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| A Song for His Wizard | |
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| Bright Star of Evening | |
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| Maya Proverbs and Kennings | |
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| Proverbs | |
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| Kennings | |
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| Creencias | |
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| Myths, Legends, and Poems | |
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| On the Human Condition and the Moral Order - The Chamula Origin Story | |
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| What the World Used to Be Like - A Chorti Origin Story | |
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| The Sweeper of the Path | |
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| The Famine | |
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| A Faithful Husband | |
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| Awaken the Flint! (A Battle Song) | |
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| Modern Historical and Pragmatic Narratives | |
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| The Proclamation of Juan de la Cruz, 1850 | |
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| The War of Santa Rosa, 1868-70 | |
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| At the Time of the Closing of the Churches, 1935 | |
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| Pajarito's War | |
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| The Origin of the Ladinos | |
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| The First Two Months of the Zapatistas | |
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| Modern Stories, Fables, and Poems | |
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| The Little Bird and the Monkey by Miguel Angel May May | |
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| The Son Who Came Back from the United States | |
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| Butterflies of Four Colors by Feliciano Sanchez Chan | |
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| Seven Poems by Humberto Ak'abal | |
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| At the Side of the Road - Essay by Humberto Ak'abal | |
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| Buzzard by Humberto Ak'abal | |
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| Two Poems by Briceida Cuevas Cob | |
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| The Little Bee (a fable) | |
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| Other Mesoamerican Literatures | |
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| Mixtec | |
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| The Mixtec Creation Myth | |
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| Mazatec | |
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| Chant by Maria Sabina | |
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| Five Poems by Juan Gregorio Regino | |
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| Zapotec | |
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| A Historical Legend | |
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| Blessing of the Wedding Couple | |
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| Zapoteco by Gabriel Lopez Chinas | |
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| Three Poems by Mario Molina Cruz | |
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| Otomi | |
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| In the Revolution of 1910 | |
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| Seven Erotic Otomi Songs and One Farewell | |
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| The River Passes | |
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| Purepecha | |
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| The Chronicle of Michoacan | |
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| The Lazy One | |
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| The Flower of the Dead | |
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| Tlapanec | |
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| The Word Shall Always Bloom by Abad Carrasco Zuniga | |
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| Glossary of Names, Terms, and Concepts | |
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| Bibliographical Essay | |
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| Index | |